Tor is usually said to be the least secure of the mainstream browsers, but is that still true if all JavaScript is disabled?

Why least secure? That doesn’t make sense to me at all. Where did you find this info.

[image] How is monoculture only a problem with Tor-like browsers? person_raising_handQuestions Tor Browser is probably the worst of the “main stream browsers” you could be running for security. If it didn’t have its strong fingerprinting protections, it would n…

Damn GrapheneOS team, I definitely do trust them when it comes to security I must say. I just can’t comprehend how Tor browser could possibly be more insecure than Firefox, Mullvad, Librewolf, Zen etc. Sure I understand Gecko is less secure than Chromium, but is Tor less secure than other browsers…

[image] How is monoculture only a problem with Tor-like browsers? person_raising_handQuestions Disclaimer: This is not meant to attack the Tor Browser devs, since they are in a pretty unique situation which forces their hand for many of these regressions. The …

That was an interesting read. Idk why I had just assumed Tor came with uBO. That’s wild that it doesn’t. How much less secure is ESR than regular FF? I will say the changing the security level as a rigid thing and only having three toggles does make sense from an anti-fingerprinting perspective. T…

[image] blibly: there are many ways to bypass the anti-fingerprinting I noticed tor browser did nothing about font fingerprinting, which I think is quite stable and unique. For example: Font Fingerprinting Font metrics-based fingerprinting. System fonts enumeration. Font fingerp…

The Design and Implementation of the Tor Browser [DRAFT] Do not use fingerprint test sites.

I think you should use Tor browser in a microvm, so you can control what fonts are there, and also make it more secure

That will be a really small bucket.

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